Blackwood Retreats
Adults: Building and Growing Healthier People at the Land Institute
Your stay at the Land Institute will help you develop healthful living skills as lifestyle habits. These skills include setting priorities, managing stress, perceiving objectively, healthy eating, taking time to renew, and healthy self-awareness essential to function well with others. Time spent at the Land Institute will reinforce the importance of community and teach you skills for better understanding. Community is a vital part of our healthy survival.
Adults, corporations, businesses, couples and small groups such as sororities and fraternities, church groups, non-profit organizations, and networking groups are invited to participate. Programs are available for 1 to 3 days and may include the following components:
- Accommodations and meal preparation in the clean, green, house—a 5000-square-foot straw bale house.
- Baking bread in the outdoor, wood fired horno oven.
- Discussion sessions in one of two Butterfly Gardens and the Stone Labyrinth.
- Journaling and reflective time in the Deer Meadow.
- Learn mastery as you practice the art of fly fishing in the pond.
Explore and understand the similarities between land patterns and life patterns. Learn stewardship applications in this unique sustainable environment. Your unique program will focus on well-being, building relationships and problem solving.
CORPORATE GROUPS: Building a High Energy Workforce at the Land Institute
The greatest resource any manager or leader has is the synergistic energy of the workforce. The greatest responsibility any manager or leader has is to provide the space for the total development of this energy. Understanding the intellectual, emotional, spiritual and physical aspects of well-being unlocks this energy. Learn and grow in this unique environment where education takes place in both the indoor and outdoor classrooms. Programs are available for 1 to 3 days, and are specifically designed to meet your corporate goals. Topics of study include Well-Being, Building Relationships, Problem-Solving, Listening and Speaking, and Performance.
Traditional classroom learning will thrive in a wide variety of stimulating and challenging environments. Your business team or corporation will receive an individually designed program.
Being in relationship with colleagues and co-workers is the essence of creating a compelling organizational future. At the Land Institute, relationship is explored in the classroom and within unique land locations such as the orchards and the organic gardens.
Discover the interconnectedness of life at the Land Institute and successful life in the business world.
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